MARKETING MCQs
MARKETING MCQs
MARKETING MCQs
We have given marketing multiple choice questions with answers. This post covers MCQs on Marketing
Management, Basics of Marketing & Principles of Marketing. You can find answers of these MCQs at the end of
each question. These MCQs are helpful for those who are looking for MCQs related to Basics of Marketing
& Marketing Management.
These MCQs Covers following topics – Introduction to Marketing, Marketing Management, Product & Product Mix,
New Product Development, Price, Place (Distribution), Promotion (Communication), Consumer
Behavior, Marketing Mix
Introduction
1. “The concept of marketing mix was developed by ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐.
a. N. H. Borden
b. Philip Katter
c. Stanton
d. W. Anderson
Answer: a
2. “Many people want BMW, only few are able to buy” this is an example of …
a. Need
b. Want
c. Demand
d. Status
Answer: c
3. …………. is the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return.
a. Marketing Myopia
b. Selling
c. Exchange
d. Delivery
Answer: c
a. Marketing Triad
b. Customer Value Triad
c. Customer Satisfaction Triad
d. Service Quality Triad
Answer: b
5. ………… model is highly firm centric, where the firm believes that the competitive edge lies in its ability to
innovate.
a. Conventional
b. Contemporary
c. Competitive
d. None of the above
Answer: a
6. “Marketing is the activity, set of ……………… & processes for creating, communicating, delivering &
…………… offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners & society.”
a. Institutions, satisfying
b. Organizations, exchanging
c. Institutions, exchanging
d. Organizations, understanding
Answer: c
7. …………. Involves purchase from various sources & assembled at one place – involves creation &
maintenance of the stock of goods purchased & …………..Involves transfer of ownership of the goods
Answer: b
8. ………..are the form of human needs take as shaped by culture & individual personality.
a. Wants
b. Demands
c. Needs
d. Social Needs
Answer: d
a. Demand
b. Need
c. Want
d. Customer
Answer: a
Answer: d
11. “Get out production, cut the price”- Philosophy by Henry Ford is an example of…
a. Marketing Concept
b. Selling Concept
c. Production Concept
d. Product Concept
Answer: c
a. Peter Drucker
b. Philip Kotler
c. Lester Wunderman
d. Abraham Maslow
Answer: b
Answer: d
14. ………………… defined as all psychological, social and physical behaviour of potential customers as they
become aware of, evaluate, purchase, consume and tell others about the product and services
a. Customer Value
b. Consumer Behavior
c. Holistic Marketing
d. Societal Marketing
Answer: b
a. Production
b. Profit making.
c. Satisfaction of customer needs
d. Selling products
Answer: c
Answer: d
a. An organizational function and a set of process for creating, communicating and delivering, value to customers
and that benefit the organization.
b. Improving the quality of life for consumers
c. Meeting needs profitability
d. Marketing is an organizational function includes the 4Ps
Answer: a
18. Marketers often use the term ________ to cover various groupings of customers.
a. buying power
b. demographic segment
c. market
d. people
Answer: c
19. Today, marketing must be understood in a new sense that can be characterized as:
Answer: c
20. Marketing is both an “art” and a “science” there is constant tension between the formulated side of
marketing and the ________ side.
a. behavior
b. creative
c. management
d. selling
Answer: c
21. …………is the major objective of any marketing activity in the world because marketing completes with
the real sale of goods and services bought or acquired by the seller or when intermediary has been
affected.
a. Marketing
b. Selling
c. Assembling
d. Transportation
Answer: b
It up holds the importance of customer in the whole value creation process. The D.A.R.T highlights this
aspect in a vivid manner.
1. Contemporary Model
2. Conventional Model
3. Both a&b
4. None of the above
Answer: a
1. Consumer Needs
2. Needs backed by buying power
3. Needs directed to the product
4. Basic human requirements
Answer: c
1. Government Markets
2. Business Markets
3. Consumer Markets
4. All of the above
Answer: d
1. Marketing is the process by which companies create value for customers & build strong customer relationships
in order to capture value from customers in return.
2. Marketing is societal process by which individuals & groups obtain what they need & want through creating
offering & freely exchanging products & services of value with others.
3. Marketing is the activity, set of institutions & processes for creating, communicating, delivering & exchanging
offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners & society at large.
4. None of the above
Answer: a
1. “The delivery of Goods& Services from producers to their ultimate consumers or users includes many different
activities. These different activities are known as marketing.”
2. Marketing is to ensure that the product is easily & effectively moved from the point of production to the target
market & ensures that the product can be easily accessed by customers.”
3. Marketing is the activity, set of institutions & processes for creating, communicating, delivering & exchanging
offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners & society
4. “Marketing is the last step in the chain of commerce where a buyer exchanges cash for a seller’s good or service,
or the activity of trying to bring this about.”
Answer: c
Product
1. Anything that can be offered to a market for attention, acquisition, use, or consumption that might
satisfy a want or need is called a(n):
a. Demand.
b. Idea.
c. Product.
d. Service
Answer: c
2. This company is well known for Technology innovation, Great value and act as a game changer.
a. Nokia
b. Apple
c. HTC
d. Samsung
Answer: b
Answer: b
4. ………means classification of standardized product into certain well defined classes or groups.”
a. Gradation
b. Segmentation
c. Standardization
d. Specification
Answer: a
5. Goods are purchased from various places and or sources and assembled at one or sources and
assembled at one place to suit the requirement of the buyer is known as……
a. Buying
b. Selling
c. Assembling
d. Material Handling
Answer: c
6. ……….. is the acquisition of goods and services by the seller or industrial user for the purpose of resale.
a. Selling
b. Assembling
c. Buying
d. Transportation
Answer: b
7. ….…is establishment of certain standards or specifications for products.” It may involve Quality (color,
taste, appearance, sweetness, purity) & Quantity (Weight, size, length etc.)
a. Standardization
b. Gradation
c. Product Control
d. Product Development
Answer: a
8. ……reflects the sum of the perceived tangible & intangible benefits & costs to customers.
a. Customer Satisfaction
b. Customer Value
c. Customer Delight
d. None of the above
Answer: b
Answer: b
10. An organization with several product lines has which one of the following mix that consists of all the
product lines and items which a particular seller offers for sale?
a. Product mix
b. Brand mix
c. Consumer mix
d. Packaging mix
Ans: a
New Product Development
9. Testing before launching a product is known as ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐.
a. Acid test
b. Concept testing
c. Market test
d. Test marketing
Answer: d
a. Commercialization
b. Competitive analysis.
c. Competitive response.
d. Test marketing
Answer: d
11. Original products, product improvements, product modifications, and new brands that a firm develops
through its own research and development efforts are called:
a. Altered products.
b. Concept products.
c. New products.
d. Supplemental products.
Answer: c
12. Introducing the new product into the market takes place in which stage of the new product
development process?
a. Commercialization
b. Test marketing
c. Product development
d. Marketing strategy
Answer: b
13. Looking at the sales history of similar products and surveying market opinion are tools used at which
stage in the new-product development process?
a. Business analysis
b. Commercialization
c. Concept development and testing
d. Marketing strategy development
Answer: b
14. Presenting new-product ideas to consumers in symbolic or physical ways to measure their reactions
occurs during which of the following stages?
a. Concept testing
b. Idea generation
c. Marketing strategy
d. Screening
Answer: a
15. A ___________________ is a detailed version of the idea stated in meaningful consumer terms.
a. Product concept
b. Product feature
c. Product idea
d. Product image
Answer: a
16. The systematic search for new-product ideas is characteristic of which stage in the new product
development process?
a. business analysis
b. concept development and testing
c. idea generation
d. idea screening
Answer: c
17. Original products, product improvements, product modifications, and new brands that a firm develops
through its own research and development efforts are called:
a. Altered products
b. Concept products
c. New products
d. Supplemental products
Answer: c
Answer: d
19. One reason that idea screening is a critical stage in the new-product development process is that:
a. Competitors can quickly steal ideas so the company wants only those ideas that can be protected with patents.
b. International competition and markets demand that all ideas be culturally sensitive.
c. Product-development costs rise greatly in later stages and the company only wants those products that can
succeed.
d. The Federal government carefully monitors each company’s idea screening process to make sure no national
security matters are at stake.
Answer: c
20. ________________ calls for finding 30 to 40 qualified shoppers and questioning them about brand familiarity
and preferences in a specific product category.
Answer: d
21. The ultimate way to test a new consumer product is to put it into full-blown ___________.
Answer: d
a. New idea
b. Product concept
c. Product idea
d. Test brand
Answer: b
23. Suppose Nestle wants to expand its line of food products. The managers conduct surveys from
customers to determine which food items would appeal to customers. Nestle is currently in which of the
following phase of new product development?
a. Business analysis
b. Idea generation
c. Idea screening
d. Test marketing
Answer: d
24. What are the two ways that a company can obtain new products?
Answer: d
25. Which of the following is not a potential cause of the failure of a new product?
Answer: c
26. Executives, manufacturing employees, and salespeople are all examples of ________.
Answer: c
27. Your firm wants to use external sources for new product ideas. After consulting with a friend you learn
that all of the following are common external sources except ________.
a. competitors
b. suppliers
c. the firm’s executives
d. trade shows and magazines
Answer: c
28. The purpose of idea generation is to create a _____ of ideas. The purpose of succeeding stages is to _____
that number.
a. Large number; increase
b. Large number; reduce
c. Small number; increase
d. Small number; reduce
Answer: b
29. ABC has just brainstormed a large number of ideas for adding new products and services after visiting
several buying fairs. The owners will begin the first idea-reducing stage, called ________ , to arrive at a
realistic number to adopt.
a. concept development
b. idea generation
c. idea screening
d. product concept
Answer: c
30. In the concept testing stage of new-product development, a product concept in ________ form is
presented to groups of target consumers.
a. commercial
b. Final
c. physical or symbolic
d. prototype
Answer: c
31. After concept testing, a firm would engage in which stage in developing and marketing a new product?
a. business analysis
b. marketing strategy development
c. product development
d. test marketing
Answer: b
32. During which stage of new-product development is management most likely to estimate minimum and
maximum sales to assess the range of risk in launching a new product?
a. business analysis
b. concept testing
c. marketing strategy development
d. test marketing
Answer: a
33. In the ________ stage of new-product development, products often undergo rigorous tests to make sure
that they perform safely and effectively or that consumers will find value in them.
a. business analysis
b. concept development and testing
c. idea generation
d. product development
Answer: d
Answer: d
35. Providing a description of a product and its attributes and inviting comment from consumers is called:
a. Attribute testing.
b. Concept testing
c. Idea Screening
d. Market testing
Answer: b
36. If Toyota describes one of its cars of the future as being “a moderately priced subcompact designed as
a second family car to be used around town; the car is ideal for running errands and visiting friends,” then
the company has just stated a potential new product in terms of a:
a. Product concept
b. Product feature
c. Product idea
d. Product image
Answer: a
37. When a company reviews sales, costs, and profit projections for a new product to find out whether
these factors satisfy the company’s objectives, they are in which of the following new-product
development stages?
a. Business analysis
b. Commercialization
c. Concept development and testing
d. Marketing strategy development
Answer: a
38. ________________ is screening new-product ideas in order to spot good ideas and Drop poor ones as soon as
possible.
a. Brainstorming
b. Concept development and testing
c. Idea generation
d. Idea screening
Answer: d
39. A ___________________ is a detailed version of the idea stated in meaningful Consumer terms.
a. Product concept
b. Product feature
c. Product idea
d. Product image
Answer: a
40. If a company wishes to test its positioning strategy, advertising, distribution, pricing, branding and
packaging, and budget levels, it can do so during which of the following stages of the new-product
development process?
a. Commercialization
b. Concept testing
c. Product development
d. Test marketing
Answer: d
41. Highest percentage of ideas for new products originates with/from which of the following sources?
a. Competitors
b. Customers
c. Employees
d. Top management
Answer: b
42. Which of the following are the people who purchase new products almost as soon as the products
reach the market?
a. Early majority
b. Innovators
c. Late adopters
d. Late majority
Answer: b
43. Which of the following is NOT one of the stages that customers go through in the process of adopting a
new product?
a. Awareness
b. Desire
c. Evaluation
d. Interest
Answer: b
44. If Videocon engineers its washing machines to spin the clothes faster regardless of whether or not
customers want that speed, then Videocon has characteristics associated with
a. Production concept
b. Selling concept
c. Marketing concept
d. Product concept
Answer: d
Promotion Mix
1. ………. emphasizes salable surpluses within the corporation, seeks to convert ‘products’ into ‘cash’
,emphasizes getting rid of stocks, concerns itself with the tricks & techniques of getting the customers to
part with their cash for the products available with the salesman.
a. Marketing
b. Selling
c. Public Relation
d. Sales Promotion
Answer: b
Answer: c
3. It has the aim of building long term mutually satisfying relations with key parties, customers, suppliers,
distributors in order to earn and retain their long term preference & business.
a. Marketing Myopia
b. Relationship Marketing
c. Product Marketing
d. Selling Concept
Answer: b
4. …………. emphasizes on the product & ……….. Emphasizes on the Customers needs & wants.
a. Selling, Marketing
b. Marketing, Selling
c. Consumer, Customer
d. Marketing, Customer
Answer: a
5. A short-sighted and inward looking approach to marketing that focuses on the needs of the company
instead of defining the company and its products in terms of the customers’ needs and wants is known as
…..
a. Transactional Marketing
b. Marketing Myopia
c. Customer Value Triad
d. Ambush Marketing
Answer: b
6. Newsletters, catalogues, and invitations to organisation-sponsored events are most closely associated
with the marketing mix activity of:
a. Distribution
b. Pricing
c. Product development
d. Promotion
Answer: d
a. De‐ marketing
b. Social marketing
c. Viral marketing
d. Virtual marketing
Answer: c
a. Direct marketing
b. Social marketing
c. Tele‐ marketing
d. Viral marketing
Answer: c
Answer: d
a. Fresh products
b. Low quality products
c. Non‐usable product
d. Renewed use of products
Answer: d
a. Direct marketing
b. Relationship marketing.
c. Social marketing
d. Viral marketing
Answer: a
12. Direct marketing refers to a communication between the ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ and ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ directly.
Answer: c
13. “How are you telling consumers in your target group about your product” This question belongs to
which marketing concept?
a. Place
b. Price
c. Product
d. Promotion
Answer: d
14. If Mark Mars pays Hershey Foods Corporation for the right to use its name on his line of T-shirts, then
Mr. Mars is using which type of policy?
a. Co-branding
b. Licensing
c. Manufacturer’s branding
d. Private branding
Answer: b
a. Communication
b. Information
c. Interpretation
d. Manipulation
Answer: c
17. When a company distributes its products through a channel structure that includes one or more
resellers, this is known as ________.
a. Direct marketing
b. Indirect marketing
c. Integrated marketing
d. Multi-level marketing
Answer: c
18. If the aim of the promotion to introduce a new consumer product is to achieve high awareness levels,
the firm will most likely make heavy use of _______ in the promotional mix.
a. Advertising
b. Personal selling
c. Publicity
d. Sales promotion
Answer: a
a. Advertising
b. Indirect selling
c. Personal selling
d. Sales promotion
Answer: d
a. Advertising
b. Personal selling
c. Publicity
d. Sales promotion
Answer: b
a. Convenience goods
b. High-priced products
c. Industrial products
d. Specialty goods
Answer: a
22. A television advertisement showing the safety features of the Volvo 240 DL would be best classified as
which of the following?
a. Defensive advertising
b. Pioneer advertising
c. Product advertising
d. Societal marketing
Answer: c
23. Which of the following is NOT a part of marketing communication mix?
a. Advertising
b. Public relations
c. Sales promotion
d. Telemarketing
Answer: d
a. Philip Kotler
b. Royal Dutch Shell
c. Theodore Levitt
d. Henry Ford
Answer: c
25. Rajeev Kapoor is a chef in a new downtown restaurant. He has sent out press releases to the major
local media and has invited food critics to dine in his restaurant. Rajeev is engaging in
a. Public relations
b. Personal selling
c. Sales promotion
d. Advertising
Answer: a
26. Newsletters, catalogs, and invitations to organisation-sponsored events are most closely associated
with the marketing mix activity of:
a. Pricing
b. Distribution
c. Product development
d. Promotion
Answer: d
Answer: b
1. Process
2. People
3. Physical Evidence
4. Consumer
Answer: c
………….defined as the employees that execute the service chiefly concerns the manner and skill in which
they do so.
1. Process
2. People
3. Physical Evidence
4. Consumer
Answer: b
…………is an important P of marketing which affect the execution of its service, such as job queuing or
query handling.
1. Process
2. People
3. Physical Evidence
4. Consumer
Answer: a
Answer: d
Answer: d
Miscellaneous
In the history of marketing, when did the production period end?
In the 1920s.
Answer: c
Which one of the following is a key to build lasting relationships with consumers?
b. Need recognition
c. Customer satisfaction
d. Quality of product
Ans: c
Which of the following is not an Exchange function of Marketing?
Answer: c
If focus is on social and ethical concerns in marketing’ is characteristic of the _________ period.
Production
Sales
Marketing
Societal marketing
Answer: d
Distribution
Promotion
Production
Pricing
Answer: c
a composite analysis of all environmental factors inside and outside the firm.
the relationship between a firm’s marketing strengths and its business weaknesses.
Answer: d
The key term in the American Marketing Association’s definition of marketing is:
Activity
Sales
Products
Value
Answer: d
…….…..is a cluster of complementary products and services that are closely related in the minds of
consumers but spread across a diverse set of industries.
Marketspace
Marketplace
Metamarket
Marketpace
Answer: c
The ___________________ concept holds that consumers will favour products that offer the most in quality,
performance and innovative features.
Marketing
Production
Product
Selling
Answer: c
Persistent
Purpose
Process
People
Answer: b
____________________ are products bought by individuals and organizations for further processing or for use in
conducting a business.
Consumer products
Specialty products
Industrial products
Personal Products
Answer: c
a) Distribution.
b) Product.
c) Target market.
d) Pricing.
Answer: c
a composite analysis of all environmental factors inside and outside the firm.
the relationship between a firm’s marketing strengths and its business weaknesses.
Answer: d
When customer expectations regarding product quality, service quality, and value-based price
are met or exceeded, _____ is created.
a) customer satisfaction
b) planning excellence
c) a quality rift
d) a value line
Answer: a
According to the Marketing and Sales Standards Setting Body (MSSSB), which of the following is not a
marketing function?
Answer: b
Mr. ABC and his staff have decided to use target marketing to reach their sales goals. Which are their
three steps (in order) to target marketing?
Ans: b
After concept testing, a firm would engage in which stage for developing and marketing a new product?
b. Business analysis
c. Product development
d. Test marketing
Ans: a
If the company’s sales are slow down, and profits level off or decline. At which stage the company has
reached?
a. Introduction
b. Decline
c. Growth
d. Maturity
Ans: b
Which of the following marketing mix activity is most closely associated with newsletters, catalogues and
invitations to organization-sponsored events?
a. Pricing
b. Promotion
c. Distribution
d. Product
Ans: b
Buying goods and services for further processing or for use in the production process refers to which of the
following markets?
a. Consumer markets
b. Government markets
c. Business markets
d. International markets
Ans: c
Which one of the following sets represents 4 C’s of the marketing mix?
Ans: a
A marketing manager of a large consumer foods company is studying distribution, promotion, and price of
the company’s product. Marketing manager is studying which one of the following concepts?
a. Marketing plan
b. Marketing strategy
c. Marketing mix
d. Market offering
Ans: c
Which one of the following is NOT the stage that customers go through in the process of adopting a new
product?
a. Awareness
b. Interest
c. Evaluation
d. Culture
Ans: d
The mental act, condition or habit of placing trust or confidence in another shows which of the following options?
a. Motive
b. Belief
c. Behavior
d. Attitude
Ans: b
New product development starts with which one of the following steps of new product development?
a. Idea screening
b. Idea generation
c. Test marketing
d. Concept testing
Ans: b
What does this statement show “Trade of value between two parties”?
a. Competition
b. Transaction
c. Exchange
d. Need
Ans: b
A marketing manager of a large consumer foods company is studying distribution, promotion, and price of the
company’s product. Marketing manager is studying which one of the following concepts?
a. Marketing plan
b. Marketing strategy
c. Marketing mix
d. Market offering
Ans: c
Which one of the following concepts is a useful philosophy in a situation when the product’s cost is too high and
marketers look for ways to bring it down?
a. Selling concept
b. Product concept
c. Production concept
d. Marketing concept
Ans: c
The buying process starts from which one of the following stage in which the buyer recognizes a problem or need?
a. Need recognition
b. Information search
c. Evaluation of alternative
d. Purchase decision
Ans: a
A firm has decided to localize its products and services to meet local market demands. Which one of the following
approach is a good approach for this segmentation?
a. Geographic
b. Demographic
c. Psychographics
d. Behavioral
Ans: a
Demographic segmentation divides the market into groups based on which of the following variables?
Ans: c
When Olympia Carpets develops new carpets that are highly stain resistant and durable, it must educate
consumers about the product’s benefits. This activity calls for which one of the following marketing mix variables?
a. Price
b. Promotion
c. Distribution
d. Product
Ans: b
Customer’s evaluation of the difference between all the benefits and all the costs of a marketing offer relative to
those of competing offers refers to which of the following options?
b. Marketing myopia
d. Customer satisfaction
Ans: a
Which one of the following statements by a company chairman BEST reflects the marketing concept?
Ans: a
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